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...integrated campus organization, the Young Democrats, is generally considered the University's most radical. Aligned with the national Democratic Party rather than with the state's dixiecrats, the YD's have invited such controversial speakers to Ole Miss as Richmond Flowers of Alabama, and Robert Kennedy...
...name with a new tip, and Colony offers coupons exchangeable for cash or trading stamps. Among other brands being tested are Bull Durham filters, Compass, Brighton, Pinnacle. Tennyson, and something that goes by the clinically clean title of Mayo's Spearmint Blend. This is named after an old Richmond family, not the medical Mayos of Minnesota, but if anyone mistakes the two, Walker probably would not object...
...ways a young group or artist can make it: starting from the top with connections, or working up from the bottom with forbearance. Lew Opler, a sophomore in Lowell House, spent a month of last summer experimenting from the bottom. On Aug. 21, he knocked on the door of Richmond Recording, one of New York's biggest music publishing houses, and asked the receptionist if he could see whoever was in. He was introduced to the general manager and handed him a carefully-assembled tape of twenty original folk-rock songs. The general manager clicked on the tape, listened...
...Notre Dame. Even Vanderbilt, a perennial conference doormat-partly because it is the only S.E.C. university that does not offer majors in either "recreation" or physical education-awards 98. S.E.C. recruiting is also "tremendously polished," according to one man who ought to know: Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers, whose son, Tennessee Halfback Richmond Flowers Jr., got offers from 62 different schools. "It's a smooth game of selling," says Flowers. "Richmond Jr. was darn near tears, sometimes, saying of some coach: 'He's so nice I sure would hate to play against...
...Byrds came from England to Virginia in 1670, grew wealthy from 18th century tobacco plantations and the slave trade; Harry's great-great-great-great-grandfather founded Richmond, that nostalgic capital of lost causes. In the 19th century the family invested less shrewdly, and by the time Harry was 15, the Byrds were on the brink of bankruptcy. He quit school, took over management of a family newspaper and made it prosper. He also staked out a small patch of orchard near the little town of Berryville, expanded his preserve until it encompassed 5,000 acres, and eventually became...